
Fifty years after Nixon's historic visit to China, questions hang over the US-China future
CNN
When US President Richard Nixon walked down the red-carpeted stairs from Air Force One to shake hands with Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai on a cold day in Beijing on February 21, 1972, it was hailed by many as a world-changing gesture.
Nixon's arrival -- the first time an American President had set foot on Chinese soil since the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949 -- came after more than 20 years of hostility and almost no contact between the two countries.

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